Memphis Music and Heritage Festival – Labor Day Weekend

Gary Topper Trio (3)No other event represents the rich musical heritage of this region better than the Memphis Music & Heritage Festival.  You’ll see and hear the Mid-South’s best singers and musicians performing traditional blues, rockabilly, country, bluegrass, klezmer, soul, jazz, gospel and that good old sweet soul music.   But the Festival is much more than just a celebration of the past.   Memphis still has a lot to offer musically from alt-rock and alt-country to hip hop to drum lines to neo-soul to techno funk to Latin jazz.  This Festival is dedicated to presenting the wealth of talent that made – and continues to make – Memphis one of the great musical melting pots on the planet.
2009 Music Genre List (updated 8.18.09)
BIG BAND
Johnny Yancey
FUNK

Hope Clayburn & Soul Scrimage
FOLK

Tori Norton
Kate Campbell
Kim Richardson
Susan Marshall
Valerie June TrioPaul Taylor
JUG BAND

Last Chance Jug Band Bluff City Backsliders
GOSPEL
Darrel Petties & SIP Sensational Six The Mellow Tones The Brown Singers Moments of Joy
BLUEGRASS
Pine Ridge Boys Grassfire
JAM BAND
FreeWorld Tempeh Four
Devil Train
Giant Bear
LATIN

Los Cantadores Los Cantadores Trio BOOGIE WOOGIE
Jason D Williams
KLEZMER

Memphis Klezmer Allstars
R & B

Sweet Angel
Sidney, Cidney, Sidney
INDIE
Two Way Radio Amy Lavere
BLUES
Agitators
Blind Mississippi Morris Daddy Mack Blues Band Elmo & The Shades Ghost Town
Blues Band
Super Chikan
Billy Lavender featuring Brad Webb and The Pocket Rockets William Lee Ellis
Slidin Clyde Roulette JAZZ
Jumpin ChiChi’s Orange Mound Jazz Messengers
Promise
The Gary Topper Group Niko Lyras & Vicki Loveland
Chris Parker & Kelley Hurt
ROCKABILLY

Sonny Burgess & the Pacers
Smoochy Smith and Hooch
COUNTRY
Eddie Bond
Greg Hisky & His Whiskey Dixie Flyers Roy Harper
Papa Tops
West Coast Turnaround
ROCK

Joyce Cobb
Dani
Dan Montgomery
Susan Marshall
RAP

Willie Firecracker Al Kapone
REGGAE

Exodus
SOUL

Bobby Rush
Tonya Dyson & Green Onions
Will Graves
Ms Nickki

This is one of my favorite Memphis Events.  I volunteer every year.  I will be managing the Folk Lore Hall Stage.  Please come by and say Hi.

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